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... TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET................................................................................................................................. 169 AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY....................................................

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...................................... ..................... 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET...................................................................... ... see, and in the second place to understand what he does see. A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET ( ( ( ( ( T T T T This ar his ar his ar his ar his article ticle t... ...ste; what was really needed was a new set of teeth. That is to say, a new alphabet. The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet. It doesn’t... ...esn’t know how to spell, and can’t be taught. In this it is like all other alphabets except one—the phonographic. This is the only competent alphabet ... ...can spell and correctly pronounce any word in our language. That admirable alphabet, that brilliant alphabet, that inspired alphabet, can be learned i... ...n place of our present written (and printed) character. I mean simply the alphabet; sim ply the consonants and the vowels—I don’t mean any re duct... ...mpression and speed. No, I would spell every word out . I will insert the alphabet here as I find it in Burnz’s Phonic Shorthand. [Image not availab... ...rd you please, just by the sound of it. We can’t do that with our present alphabet. For instance, take a simple, every day word phthisis. If we trie... ... knew the simplified form for every word in the language, the phonographic alphabet would still beat the Simplified Speller “hands down” in the import...

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...ANGAROO .................................................................................................................................. 29 HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE ......................................................................................... 53 THE CRAB THAT PLAYED.................................................................................................

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.................................................................. 29 HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE ............................................................ ...ibe of Tegumai They cut a noble figure then! 53 Rudyard Kipling HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE T HE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call h... ...the sound-pictures that 63 Rudyard Kipling they wanted, and there was the Alphabet, all complete. And after thousands and thousands and thou- sands o... ...ve a good thing alone when they saw it), the fine old easy, understandable Alphabet—A, B, C, D, E, and the rest of ‘em—got back into its proper shape ...

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... good lists they were—very well chosen, and very neatly arranged—sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when... ...d him, which he could reach as he sat, “have your nephews taken away their alphabets—their box of letters? It used to stand here. Where is it? This is... ... thought; and producing the box, the table was quickly scattered over with alphabets, which no one seemed so much disposed to employ as their two selv... ... “It is too much a matter of fact, but here it is.—What two letters of the alphabet are there, that express perfection?” “What two letters!—express pe...

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...first I was helped—you’d never guess by what—milestones. I got some large alphabets in a box, all the letters separate on bits of bone, and saying we...

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...earing of my tal- ent for catching otters, for I know ‘em as you know your alphabet, he says to me like this: ‘Pere Fourchon,’ says he, “when you find... ...to public education. He helped the children to make paper boats with their alphabets much oftener than he taught them how to spell; he scolded them in...

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...ulty; and a composition in needlework representing fruit, a kettle, and an alphabet. All the movables, from the wardrobes to the chairs and tables, ha... ... instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie. And thus, through years and ye... ...me dirty playbills; and against the wall were pasted several large printed alphabets in several plain hands. “What are you doing here?” asked my guard...

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...ulty; and a composition in needlework representing fruit, a kettle, and an alphabet. All the movables, from the wardrobes to the chairs and tables, ha... ... instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie. And thus, through years and ye... ...me dirty playbills; and against the wall were pasted several large printed alphabets in several plain hands. “What are you doing here?” asked my guard...

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... a Frenchman or Englishman learning Russian is the difficult and confusing alphabet; the chief obstacle to anyone learning English is the irrational s... ...ngua franca of which the world has need. And in the same way, the phonetic alphabet adopted as the English medium could be used as the medium for in- ... ...ian letter- ing—I speak from the point of view of those who read the Latin alphabet. How confusing it may be only those who have tried it can tell. It... ...l the instruction in Russian of which I can get an account begins with the alphabet, and must, I suppose, begin with the alphabet until teachers have ...

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...any. Then the angels are not learned; then they don’t so much as know their alphabet. And now, my friends and fellow sinners, hav ing brought it to...

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...er bonnet straight must have cooled off then. The man didn’t know the very alphabet of drawing! His strong point, he intimated, was his sentiment; but...

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...s or hours, repeat the sentence which he had reeled up. He had reduced the alphabet to eleven primi- tive sounds, and tried to teach me his method, bu...

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...ity in all that touches dialect; so that in every novel the letters of the alphabet are tor- tured, and the reader wearied, to commemorate shades of m...

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..., and which he never omitted from his signature, as the last letter of the alphabet, suggested some mysterious fatality. Marcas! say this two-syllable...

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...tep was to procure a set of metal types, with the different letters of the alphabet cast upon their ends; also a board, in which were square holes, in... ...ase was made, in which it was stated that “she has just learned the manual alphabet, as used by the deaf mutes, and it is a subject of delight and won... ...son. She then holds up her tiny fingers, and spells the word in the manual alphabet; next, she takes her types and arranges her letters; and last, to ... ...hich she could possibly handle; in exercising her in the use of the manual alphabet; in extending in every possible way her knowledge of the physical ... ...r spells out names of things which she has recently learned, in the manual alphabet of the deaf mutes. In this lonely self communion she seems to reas... ...“During the year she has attained great dexterity in the use of the manual alphabet of the deaf mutes; and she spells out the words and sentences whic... ...us in those visions of the night, so she, having no words, uses her finger alphabet in her sleep. And it has been ascertained that when her slum ber ...

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...believe that, was for the mind of General Ople the having to return to his alphabet and recommence the ascent of the laborious moun- tain of understan...

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... under stood every word, that was spoken to me. Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; fo... ...No law in that country must exceed in words the num ber of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty. But indeed few of them e... ... After he had left me, I placed all my words, with their interpretations, in alphabetical order. And thus, in a few days, by the help of a very faithf... ...of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of... ...sions very well, and the words might, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more eas ily than the Chinese. I could frequently distinguish t... ...y, I formed all I learned into Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 206 the English alphabet, and writ the words down, with the translations. This last, afte...

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...y shy,” Mrs. Westgate repeated. “But she is a dear good girl; she is a charming species of girl. She is not in the least a flirt; that isn’t at all he...

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... Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign, But I of these will wrest an alphabet And by still practise learn to know thy meaning. Young LUCIUS : ...

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...d, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet – or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence – and few languages ...

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...my life to know Greek,” she said, when he had done. “I could teach you the alphabet in half an hour,” said Ridley, “and you’d read Homer in a month. I... ... my duty at dinner!” cried Clarissa. “You’ve let yourself in for the Greek alphabet, anyhow.” “Oh, my dear! Who is Ambrose?” “I gather that he was a C... ...r, and made a con- quest by which she has bound herself to learn the Greek alphabet. I will take this occasion of adding that we are both enjoying our... ...r heard such nonsense! Chitter- chatter-chitter-chatter—fish and the Greek alphabet— never listened to a word any one said—chock-full of idi- otic the... ... to go, but not until she had bound herself to learn at any rate the Greek alphabet, and to return her French novel when done with, upon which somethi...